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Aunt Sally

Q. I thought I had a reasonably happy marriage (despite many ups and downs). I’m 58 and my wife is 48. We have two lovely teenage boys. Four years ago, however, my wife announced that she didn’t fancy me any more, and that any physical relationship was “a thing of the past”. Sex has always been important to me — and, I thought, to my wife. I feel like I’m in no man’s land — we’re together and not together. We still share a bed, and have agreed to stay together until the boys leave home. Neither of us is seeing anyone else, although we are increasingly developing our own social lives. It’s like a knife through the middle of our marriage. I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve this, and get depressed and feel a bitter resentment towards my wife. I have tried to get her to see a relationship